News is new information or current events. The reporting of news falls into the field of journalism. News can be reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies. If the content of news is significant enough, it eventually becomes history.

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Newsworthiness

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To be considered newsworthy, an event usually must have broad interest due to one or more news values:-

• Effect (how many people were, are or will be affected?)
• Timeliness (did the event occur very recently?)
• Revelation (is there significant new information, previously unknown?)
• Proximity (was the event nearby geographically?)

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Offbeat and funny financial news - CNNMoney.com

Citigroup sues pawnshop over logo
Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:59:39 -0500
You would think that Citigroup had enough on its plate these days, but that hasn't stopped the financial behemoth from filing a copyright infringement suit against a Brooklyn, New York, pawnshop over a similar logo.
Partridge, pear tree, etc.: $86,609
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:43:41 -0500
Read full story for latest details.
'Bailout' is 2008 word of the year
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:36:04 -0500
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Bizarre Bazaar

Hurricane Hunting
Eleanor Hong Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:46:07 -0400
People do some pretty crazy things in life -- flying straight into a hurricane is right up there. Or so I thought, until I took a flight with the US Air Force’s hurricane hunters, right into Hurricane Gustav as it...
The First Hidden Church
zzaki Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:22:22 -0400
An archaeologist in Jordan claims to have found the earliest-known Christian church anywhere in the world. I read this online in the Jordan Times while I am next door in Iraq. What is any self-respecting journalist with a persistent sense...
Mosul Memories
zzaki Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:51:00 -0400
I have fond memories of playing dominoes at a tea shop overlooking the Tigris River in the northern city of Mosul. It is right at the end of the iron bridge that connects the old part of the town with...

WTOP / Water Cooler / Watercooler Stories

Authorities say man stole car to face theft charge
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000

NZ lawmaker sculpted in cow manure
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000

Miss. gov's son scores 2 holes-in-one in one round
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000

Oregon man charged with DUI after 911 call
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000

SKorean woman passes driver's exam on 950th try
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000

Sleepwalker beaten after men find him in apartment
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:40 -0000


CNEWS Weird News

Suspect steals car to attend court
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:45:00 -0500
VALLEJO, Calif. - The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.
London commuters baffled by sex broadcast
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:05:06 -0500
London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station's loudspeaker system.
Woman passes driver's test after 950th try
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:43:51 -0500
A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.

Exploding Cigar

Man faces prison for attacking boy with a hedgehog
Kaboom! Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:05:44 -0000
A 27-year-old man faces a possible 5 years in prison after attacking a 15-year-old boy with a hedgehog. Related posts:Athiest man faces expulsion from Boy Scouts A 19-year-old athiest man who has been vowing his belief...Scientists may treat Parkinson’s Disease with Sonic Hedgehog A new study at Toronto’s Western Hospital suggests that increasing...6-year-old boy left at Chuck-E-Cheese after party A family left a 6-year-old boy at Chuck-E-Cheese after a... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
India develops curry hand grenade
Kaboom! Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:13 -0000
India has developed a new nonlethal weapon in the war on terror: the curry hand grenade. Related posts:Woman takes hand grenade to work Asia Portis, 19, found a rust-encrusted hand grenade near the...Discovery of doll hand closes Ontario beach A supposed human baby’s hand found on an Ontario beach...Doctors use hot curry to treat radiation burns Tests suggest that the compound that makes curry yellow may... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Children in poor countries need more toilets
Kaboom! Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:56:44 -0000
UN Agencies for world health and children are underscoring the need for more toilets for children in poor countries. Related posts:Media upset with DNC toilets Members of the media are upset that only 20 portable...Boston says no to public toilets during Democratic Convention Boston has decided to provide no public toilets after 5pm...Government advises against swimming with diarrhea Health agencies are advising swimmers with diarrhea to stay out... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

ABC News: Offbeat

Plunging necklines a no-no at masses
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:03:00 +1000
The Catholic Church has issued guidelines on what Filipinos should wear to mass in Manila after some parishioners complained about distracting skimpy attire.
Skinny dipper seized at tourism icon
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:34:00 +1000
A 22-year-old American man has been arrested after an early-morning naked bath in the historic Barcaccia fountain at the foot of Rome's Spanish Steps, an Italian news agency reports.
Church calls on 'Simpsons' to help reach teens
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:36:00 +1000
A Church of England-backed book suggests youth workers should try to make religion relevant to children by showing them episodes of cartoon show The Simpsons.

AHN - Breaking offbeat news and headlines

All Headline News - Breaking News
The latest top breaking news, U.S., world, business, politics, entertainment, celebrities, sports, technology, and more.
(AHN) Black Bear To Be Put Down After Entering Home, Clawing Aspen Woman
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:31:22 -0000
(AHN) - Colorado's Division of Wildlife is hunting down Tuesday a black bear that broke into an Aspen home and clawed a resident to prevent it from attacking other people in the area.
(AHN) "Treasure Trove" Of Tools, Animal Bones Found In Underwater Caribbean Cave
Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:41:59 -0000
(AHN) - A "treasure trove" of stone tools and the bones of several now-extinct Caribbean animals have been found in an underwater cave by researchers from the University of Indiana Bloomington.

AP Top Strange News At 9:43 p.m. EST

Authorities say man stole car to face theft charge
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:22:03 -0000
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) -- The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge....
SKorean woman passes driver's exam on 950th try
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:36:55 -0000
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The aspiring driver spent more than 5 million won ($4,200) in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test....
Oregon man charged with DUI after 911 call
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:36:56 -0000
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road....

WMTW.com

Authorities: Man Stole Car To Face Theft Charge
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:58 -0500
The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.
Man Donates Cheesehead Hat Signed By Obama
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:27:49 -0500
A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.
Escaped Circus Elephant Hit By SUV OK
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:18 -0500
An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.

PR-inside.com News

RAmos T9 iMovie 2 PMP MP4 Player, 16GB
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:37 -0000
RAmos T9 iMovie 2, 16GB 4.3 inch Wide Screen, 800*480 pixels resolution. Support Google Earth satellite map. Capacitive touch screen system. Intelligentized vibration user touch feedback. RAmos T9 System * ID3 V1.0,ID3 V2.0 Tags * Chinese / English and International * Graphic User Intefaces * Touch Screen File Format * MP3/WMA/FLAC/APE/AAC * MPEG4 AVI/ RMVB/RM Video Format * Digital voice recording * JPEG/BMP/GIF picture format EQ : 8 EQ system of Normal,Rock,Pop,Classic,Self-defined,Bass,Jazz,Play-FX Music * Headphone output power of the largest L(10mw) + R (10mw)(32Ω) * Frequency response 30HZ ~ 18KHZ, 0dB ± 3dB * Signal to noise ratio ≥ 90dB * Distortion ≦ 0.03% * Breakpoint to support
SEO India: Secure Great Conversions With SEO Services India
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:19 -0000
SEO services India, Profit By Search provides unfailing impetuses to websites with unmatched offerings to enable them to beat competitive ones and emerge with sustained #1 rankings with crucial keywords, and that too with amazing cost benefits. A number of websites relying on unethical search engine optimization practices are punished to the margins or removed altogether every day once smart search engine spiders smell a rat, causing irrevocable damages to the credibility and reputation of the online business. These website, in their race to beat fierce competition, switch to Black Hat search engine optimization tactics of unethical manipulation of web
Order Guide For 2009 Christmas Gift: Nintend DSi Flash Cards - R4i
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:53 -0000
There have a lots of R4i Series Flash Cards at Markets, People usually confuse by the Name, like www.r4i-sdhc.com's R4i SDHC,www.r4ids.com' Gold R4i,www.r4ultra.com's R4i Ultra, But which one is the best? www.r4i-sdhc.com R4i SDHC is the best, Base on vgwoot.com Oct. Sales report, Also we can get a search confirm form google, when we search R4i On google, the first URL always r4i-sdhc.com. Let's us take a little time visit r4i-sdhc.com, we can find a lots of information about this r4i, and the kernel updated usually. Is it expensive? No, Its just $9.58 with Free shipping, Yes, Free shipping at www.vgwoot.com Go and Buy this

This is True

THIS is TRUE 803: 1 November
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:13:32 -0000
SINCE 1994 and reaching more than 107,000 subscribers in over 200 countries, this is the 803rd weekly issue of... THIS is TRUE: 1 November 2009 Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER OF THE YEAR: A man was arrested in a hospital in Ogden, Utah, after allegedly groping a nurse. Adam Jay Manning, 30, wasn't a patient To read the full text of this week's issue see This is True's -- weird news stories. Large portions of True are archived on the web, including the This is True story archive, the Honorary Unsubscribe, and the Bonzer Web Site of the Week. This is True covers bizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. True is also the source of the (in)famous Get Out of Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor site Jumbo Joke, and is the publisher of the True Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups of crazy lawsuits. Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue: Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to post the text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitions against that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it -- by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a few idiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. True depends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have people stealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, including the "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites that automatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this free subscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that and take more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those of you who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them in newsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And that matters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generous with my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me, not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact, then stop reading my stuff. The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those who want to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lot of you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but have difficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are not allowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out the e-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam. Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, but because very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previous one, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True web site. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification of the new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find the current issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previous issue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy: it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, the Bonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. The site is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time to explore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)
THIS is TRUE #802: 25 October
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:37:48 -0000
To read the full text of this week's issue see This is True's -- weird news stories. Large portions of True are archived on the web, including the This is True story archive, the Honorary Unsubscribe, and the Bonzer Web Site of the Week. This is True covers bizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. True is also the source of the (in)famous Get Out of Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor site Jumbo Joke, and is the publisher of the True Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups of crazy lawsuits. Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue: Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to post the text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitions against that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it -- by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a few idiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. True depends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have people stealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, including the "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites that automatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this free subscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that and take more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those of you who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them in newsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And that matters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generous with my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me, not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact, then stop reading my stuff. The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those who want to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lot of you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but have difficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are not allowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out the e-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam. Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, but because very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previous one, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True web site. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification of the new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find the current issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previous issue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy: it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, the Bonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. The site is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time to explore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)

Reuters: Oddly Enough

Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:54:33 -0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.
London commuters baffled by sex broadcast
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:57:32 -0000
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station's loudspeaker system.
Malaysia irked by pregnant athlete's pull-out
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:15:08 -0000
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 16-week pregnant athlete faces sanction from Malaysian sports authorities for pulling out of December's Southeast Asian Games, local media reported Friday.

chron.com News Bizarre

SUV hits elephant that escaped from Okla. circus
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:42:00 -0000
An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple’s SUV Wednesday night when it ran across a rural highway in Enid, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City.
Town puts its paw down: three cats, no more
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:05:00 -0000
Voters at a town meeting in Dudley added language to a town bylaw on Monday night that makes it illegal to own more than three cats without a $50 residential kennel license.
Fiddler crab ethics: Sex traded for protection
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:49:00 -0000
Researchers from The Australian National University in Canberra found that male fiddler crabs will happily defend a female neighbor against intruders — partly because the females will dole out sex in return.

Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News

Bawling Babies Are Copying Mum's Accent
The sound of a mother's voice has such an influence on her unborn child that even tiny babies cry with an accent, according to new research.
Crumbs! Baguette Leads To Scientific Setback
The massive machine at the centre of the world's biggest scientific experiment has malfunctioned again - derailed by a bit of bread dropped by a bird.
950th Time Is The Charm For Learner Driver
A woman in South Korea has finally passed her driving test after hundreds of attempts - 950 to be exact.

MiamiHerald.com: Weird News

Authorities say man stole car to face theft charge
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0500
The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.
NZ lawmaker sculpted in cow manure
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:00 -0500
A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for New Zealand dollars 3,080 ($2,220) on an auction Web site. The bust of New Zealand Environment Minister Nick Smith, sculpted as a protest by artist Sam Mahon, attracted 112 bids before being picked up by an anonymous buyer on Friday.
Miss. gov's son scores 2 holes-in-one in one round
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0500
A single hole-in-one is a big enough dream for most golfers. But two in one round? That's some luck. Reeves Barbour, the 30-year-old son of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, had two aces in a single round Oct. 25 on a Robert Trent Jones course in Gainesville, Va.

CNN.com - Funny News

Gamers prove their metal as rock stars
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:27:09 -0500
Jess Hu is a child care provider from Brooklyn, New York, but for 20 hours a week, she's a rock star. That's how much she estimates she plays the video game "Rock Band."
Comedian is living in an Ikea store
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:23:26 -0500
Read full story for latest details.
Texas town hopes to become UFO landing spot
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:39:56 -0500


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